by alicetyson | Nov 26, 2020 | General
By Franklin De Vrieze, Senior Governance Adviser at Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), and Alex Read, Democratic governance practitioner COVID-19 could affect a shift towards a surveillance culture. Once introduced, privacy-infringing technologies may be...
by alicetyson | Nov 11, 2020 | General
By Franklin De Vrieze, Senior Governance Adviser at Westminster Foundation for Democracy, and Sean Molloy, Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University. COVID-19 emergency legislation is often fast-tracked, approved without much parliamentary scrutiny, expanding...
by alicetyson | Oct 29, 2020 | General
By Franklin De Vrieze, Senior Governance Adviser at WFD and Sarah Moulds, Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University of South Australia. How do journalists and citizens find out about these real-world impacts of government’s policy responses to COVID-19? How can...
by alicetyson | Oct 15, 2020 | General
:By Franklin De Vrieze and Joelle Grogan In response to COVID-19, countries have applied different legislative models to introduce emergency measures. Some countries declared a state of emergency. Others decided to rely on existing legislation to face the...
by alicetyson | Jul 31, 2020 | General, Research
The results of the 2019 Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) are now available, and we are delighted at the very positive response for IALS. PRES collects feedback from postgraduate research students (PRGs) about their experiences, which allows us insight...